Collar



Nov. 6, 1928.

W., J. LA ROSE COLLAR Filed May 24, 1927 INVENTOR.

Mlliam 1:]. LaHOSe t ATTORNEY.

small 15 With this object in View, the invention showing to Figure 2, an adhesive being cure the stiffener in 15 are connectedat t e back of the collar by Patented Nov; 6,v

PATENT; OFFICE;

WILLIAI' v.1. L4 ROSE, or NORTH TROY, unw yonx com.

Application filed May 24, 1927. Serial No. 193,797.

The object of the invention is to provide a collar in the formof the conventional soft collar but equipped with means which will ensure it retaining its shape and prevent curl- 5 mg u at the lower edges; to provide a con- SCI'IICtIOIIOf collar in which the stiffening -means may be incorporated as an element of the collar in the manufacture of the same. and which, in the launderin -of the collar,

-1 will not interfere with the e' ective performance thereof; and to provide a device of this character which mag ly manufactured and t erefore marketed at cost.

consists in a construction and combination of parts of which -a preferred embodiment is illustrated. in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

embodying the invention. Figure 2 is a plan viewof the 'outer'fold the manner in which the stiffener is applied. 4

Figure '3 is a similar view of the outer fold after turning. v

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 44 of Figure 1.

The stiffener 10 is carried atthe lower ahd so front edges of the outer .fold 11 of the collar 12, the outer fold consisting of. a plurality of plies, for-example, two, as indicatedat 11" v and 11 and these at the. front edges and at the lower edge are united as by a button-hole i5 stitch 14. The stiffener which comprises two L-shaped sect-ions 15 is laid against the face of the collar sufliciently within the connected edges of the two lies to permit the marginal edges being fol ed over it," as indicated in employed to selace. The two sections and secured to the body of the fold-,the stiff;

be easily and cheap-' of time without injury.

Figure 1 is a perspective viewv of a collar soft collar ener is thereby enclosedand then the two plies are turned between them as indicated in Figure 3, when the stiifener lies atthe two front edges of the fold and at the lower edge. The; inner fold 18 of the collar'is then way. k

'The stiffener is made of a material commercially known as Chalmite which is a composition of plant fibre mixediwith glue or other suitable binder and rolled or'compressed into the form of sheet material. The material is soft and standing in storage for an indefinite length The outstandingcharacteristic of the material of the stiffener in its present adaptation is that when it-is necessary to wash the collar, the immersion of the same in the manner as in the illustrated embodiment.

applied in the usual pliable and capable of The invention having been described, what is laimed as new and usefulisr duality of plies for the\outer fold, stitching T e method of constructing a double fold which consists inproviding 'a said plies-together at the ends and one side edge, applying a stiffener along the stitched edges but inset from the same, folding the stitched edges over the stiffener and secure ing them to the body portion of the plies, and finally turning the phes inside outto dispose the stifi'ener at the bottom and front edges of the fold. I v

In testimony whereof-he aflixes his signaure.

LA. BOSE.- 

